I'm not saying there isn't an answer to this, but I don't know what it is. When I'm using Windows Remote Desktop and I lose my connection to the remote machine, or just log off, I can log in again, even from somewhere else, and pick up right where I left off. XTunneling doesn't give me this option, as far as I know. I have dabbled with VNC a little bit, but it seems not to be well integrated with linux in general (separate passwords? individually creating VNC displays?) and even then resuming sessions seems to be 'theoretically' possible, but elusive in reality.

For me, this is an important feature, X will always be less appealing until it works. Right now I RDP into a windows machine inside the firwall, then Xtunnel from there to get at least some of this functionality.

Overcoming challenges might be valuable, working hard is not. Valuing hard work is just another gateway to he same kind of "everyone is wonderful" syndrome we've already got. Anyone can say the "worked hard" on something no matter how poorly they did, and they might not even be lying, do they deserve recognition for that?

If you have to work twice as hard as someone else to overcome some obstacle that doesn't make your accomplishment twice as significant, if anything, it's only half as significant. Knowing that, how can hard work build a sense of self-worth?